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Los Alamos High School Graduate Kristin Christensen Exercises Passion For Public Health In Peace Corps

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LAHS 2013 graduate and Peace Corps volunteer Kristin Christensen said her bike was her main means of transportation during her service in Madagascar. The Peace Corp does not allow volunteer to drive or ride motorcycles. Courtesy photo 

Peace Corps volunteer Kristin Christensen, left, with her friend and head nurse at the clinic. Courtesy photo

By KIRSTEN LASKEY
Los Alamos Daily Post
kirsten@ladailypost.com

Los Alamos native and 2013 Los Alamos High School graduate Kristin Christensen has a passion for public health and recently exercised that passion half-way around the world.

For one Read More

UA Birmingham: Pro-Inflammatory Lipids Precede Type 1 Diabetes Onset In Mouse Model And Children

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A woman of Asian descent with diabetes holding a blood sugar monitor while her partner looks on. These lipids may act as a biomarker for Type 1 diabetes and offer a therapeutic target to prevent the disease. Courtesy/UAB

UAB News:

BIRMINGHAM, AL — Type 1 diabetes, or T1D, is an autoimmune disease in which the body’s immune cells — led by inflammatory macrophages — attack and destroy the beta cells of the pancreas that produce insulin.

Researchers have long tried to unravel the signaling that provokes this attack. One of the less-studied forms of signaling is inflammatory lipids. 

In a study published Read More

Novel Nanopillars Precisely Control Color, Intensity Of Light

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Illustration depicts a faithful reproduction of Johannes Vermeer’s ‘Girl With a Pearl Earring’ using millions of nanopillars that control both the color and intensity of incident light. Courtesy/T. Xu/Nanjing University

Left: Schematic for generating a full-color nanopainting image. Insets show a constituent titanium dioxide nanopillar and a scanning electron microscope image of the fabricated nanopillars. False color shading indicates the primary colors generated by the nanopillars. Scale bar: 500 nm. Right: Experimental color image of ‘Girl With a Pearl Earring’ generated Read More

World Futures Institute: Communication And Information Part 3

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By ANDY ANDREWS
Los Alamos World Futures Institute

In Parts 1 and 2 of this series we examined the acceleration of communication among humans in the period from around 3,250 B.C until the late 1940’s A.D.

Then we noted the development of the digital computer and the emergence of the transistor. While these developments did not immediately affect communication, they were essential to a communication explosion, especially the 1959 the metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET).

While the great majority of us have no idea of what a MOSFET is, it was the enabling technology Read More

Skolnik: School Reopening And Safety – A Proposal For Moving Forward

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By RICHARD SKOLNIK
Los Alamos

Few things can be more important to our community than reopening schools as safely as possible for teachers, staff, students and those of us who live here.

It will be impossible to guarantee that no one gets infected with COVID-19 as our schools reopen. However, it is imperative that our schools and community engage in the best possible practices to avoid infection. This is especially so given the enormous costs of infection in days of lost schooling, days of lost work, hospital costs, and possible deaths.

In addition, we are learning more and more that infection alone, Read More

Full Corn Moon Rises Over Los Alamos

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September’s full Corn Moon rises over Los Alamos at around 8 p.m. Tuesday. It gets its name because this is the time of year when crops are gathered at the end of the summer season. At this time, the moon appears particularly bright and rises early, letting farmers continue harvesting into the night. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com Read More

Chart 172: COVID-19 In New Mexico Sept. 2

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Diagnosis: COVID-19 diagnoses per 100 residents by country. Shown are the top 20 countries in the world, with the United States and the state of New Mexico highlighted. Countries with populations less than one million are not displayed. Source: New York Times. Created by Eli Ben-Naim
Deaths: COVID-19 related deaths per 10,000 residents by country. Shown are the top 20 countries in the world, with the United States and the state of New Mexico highlighted. Countries with populations less than one million are not displayed. Source: New York Times. Created by Eli Ben-Naim
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Japan Signs Official Instrument Of Surrender 75 Years Ago

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Seventy-five years ago today, representatives of the Empire of Japan boarded the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu (wearing top hat) and General Yoshijiro Umezu, Chief of the Army General Staff, signed the official instrument of surrender. Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers General Douglas MacArthur signed next along with other Allied commanders. The ceremony took only 23 minutes and was broadcast throughout the world (click for live footage from the National Archives). The most horrific war in human history was officially over. Source: Atomic Heritage
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Historical Society Announces Fall Lectures Beginning Sept. 15

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Author Nancy Greenspan

By SHARON SNYDER
Los Alamos Historical Society

Join the Los Alamos Historical Society online for our fall lecture series.

Our first lecture will be at 6 p.m. Sept. 15, with an exciting presentation from author Nancy Thorndike Greenspan about her new book Atomic Spy: The Dark Lives of Klaus Fuchs.

The lecture series continues Oct. 13 with a presentation from Smithsonian curator Matthew Shindell and Nov. 17 with a lecture from historian of science Alex Wellerstein.

Historical Society lectures are free, but registration is required to provide you with the Zoom link. Lectures Read More

Kiwanis K-Kids Read To Support African Library Project

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Barranca 5th grader Damian Scammell spent time reading for three weeks in July as part of the in ‘Together We Read’ summer reading program sponsored by the African Library Project. Courtesy photo

Aspen 2nd grader Evan Guerrero spent time reading for three weeks in July as part of the in ‘Together We Read’ summer reading program sponsored by the African Library Project. Courtesy photo

Since late 2016, Los Alamos has collected, packed, and funded the shipping of more than 40,000 children’s books, enough for 40 school libraries of 1,000 books each in Africa. Courtesy photo

By SHARON ALLEN
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